MACHINE-READABILITY REQUIRES PERSISTENT IDENTIFIERS
The purpose of identifiers is
… to name things
… making it possible to refer to them
•To uniquely identify something it needs a persistent identifier, a PID.
•A Persistent Identifier is globally unique,persistent, and resolvable“.
•A PID is resolvable when it allows both human and machine users to access an object or its representation, and
its
Kernel
Information.
•Kernel Information is a structured record that contains information (metadata) about the referred object, such as a
pointer to the location where the data for the object can be found.